Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

The role of Mediator and Little Elongation Complex in transcription termination

  • Hidehisa Takahashi,
  • Amol Ranjan,
  • Shiyuan Chen,
  • Hidefumi Suzuki,
  • Mio Shibata,
  • Tomonori Hirose,
  • Hiroko Hirose,
  • Kazunori Sasaki,
  • Ryota Abe,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Yanfeng He,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Ichigaku Takigawa,
  • Tadasuke Tsukiyama,
  • Masashi Watanabe,
  • Satoshi Fujii,
  • Midori Iida,
  • Junichi Yamamoto,
  • Yuki Yamaguchi,
  • Yutaka Suzuki,
  • Masaki Matsumoto,
  • Keiichi I. Nakayama,
  • Michael P. Washburn,
  • Anita Saraf,
  • Laurence Florens,
  • Shigeo Sato,
  • Chieri Tomomori-Sato,
  • Ronald C. Conaway,
  • Joan W. Conaway,
  • Shigetsugu Hatakeyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14849-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Mediator subunit MED26 was shown to help recruit Super Elongation Complex (SEC) or Little Elongation Complex (LEC) to control the expression of certain genes. Here, the authors provide evidence that MED26 recruits LEC to regulate transcription termination of non-polyadenylated genes, including snRNA and replication-dependent histone (RDH) genes at Cajal bodies.